Ahmedabad

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1. Story
2. A major city in Gujarat, western India, on the Sabarmati river, and the place where urban heat governance was first formalised in South Asia. A severe heatwave in May 2010 produced a sharp excess-mortality signal that local health researchers and the municipal corporation were able to detect in all-cause death records, and the response — the 2013 Heat Action Plan — was built around that measurement rather than around a construction programme. Ahmedabad matters to this Journey for two reasons beyond the plan itself. It shows a city acting on a hazard using data it already collected, which is the cheapest form of adaptation available anywhere. And it shows the limits of that approach: a warning system reduces deaths during an event and does nothing about the built fabric, the roof materials, the tree cover or the electricity access that determine how hot the interior of a home gets in the first place. The plan is a floor, not a solution, and its authors have consistently described it that way.
3. Knowledge
4. Heat action plan
5. Ahmedabad
6. Connections
7. Urban cooling demand
8. Heat action plan
9. Ahmedabad adopts South Asia's first heat action plan
10. Ahmedabad
11. Ahmedabad adopts South Asia's first heat action plan
12. Building Resilience to Climate Change: Pilot Evaluation of the Impact of India's First Heat Action Plan on All-Cause Mortality
13. Evidence
14. Supports the statement that summer all-cause mortality in Ahmedabad after the 2013 Heat Action Plan, compared against a 2007–2010 baseline, implies on the order of eleven to twelve hundred deaths avoided annually. V55 verification basis: the citation, journal, year and DOI were retrieved from the publisher listing, but the article was not opened; the deaths-avoided figure comes from secondary summaries of it and the study describes itself as a pilot evaluation.